Degustabox April 2014 Review

Holy yumminess. This month's box was immense I have to say. I will eat everything. I already have eaten a lot of it! Let's tuck in!

Dr Oetker - Cooking Chocolate (£1.69 each)

Fairly self explanatory. The box came with a yummy looking recipe for chocolate fondants using these so I might well be attempting that with these at some point. Random thing to put in the box maybe, but it will get used at some stage!

Mornflake - Superfast Pots (£1.20 each)

I love the idea of these. Handy pots that become a ready made bowl of cereal when you add water to them! They even come with a spoon in the lid. Great idea. So, imagine my face when I noticed both were nutty flavours. I'm fairly sure I stated on my profile not to send me nutty products because I'm allergic, but I got these. They'll be donated to my Mum I think, loves granola so she does.

Lindt - Lindor Bar (80p each)

Ok, hide my face in shame. The box came with three of these in it. Two of them had magically disappeared into my tummy before I got around to taking any photos. Whoopsie. Also, this one is gone now just before I started typing up this review. Whoops again. So, maybe that's enough said. These are delicious. I do like chocolate. Just a tad. Honest.

Go Splash (£2.45 each)

This product is a great idea I think. Just splash some into your water anytime to give it a flavour. I like that this is sugar free too. It'll make 30 glasses from this little thing as well. Very handy for work I think I'll be giving this a try next week. I'd quite happily get one of these again, but the price puts me off to be honest, when you could get regular diluting juice for a lot less.

Cawston Press - Love Sparkles Rhubarb (£1)

Fruity sparkling water in a can. This will be coming with me to work next week. Sounds yummy anyway! I'll put it to the test then, but I like the idea anyway!

Clearspring - Miso Soups (£1.29 each)

Just add water to these to get yourself some tasty Miso soup. Handy indeed me thinks! Again, I will be taking these for lunch to work this week, hopefully they taste as good as they look. They come freeze dried to seal in the flavour apparently, so it's worth a try!

Keogh's - Atlantic Sea Salt & Irish Cider Vinegar Crisps (£1.00)

Now, since I don't like salt and vinegar crisps, these were donated to the boyfriend. He ate them. When I then asked for his thoughts on them for this review he said 'They were alright'. So there you have it. Top notch review skills right there.

Mcvities - Jaffa Cake Mini Rolls (£1.30 each)

Now, here we have more chocolate. Somehow I ate the Lindt first and left these to the side. I was intrigued by the try me frozen claim on the outside, so 2 of each flavour have now been put in the freezer and I'll try one this evening me thinks. I like the berry burst ones the most so far, but I reckon the tropical ones will be awesome cold, so I'll let you know how I get on!

Crabbies - Alcoholic Ginger Beer with Raspberry (£2.19)

Lastly, some booze. This stuff tastes really yummy right from the fridge in the sun. I'll be getting this again have no fear. Well, if it's on offer that is.

Loved this month's box. I'm really enjoying having a food box, so much so this will be replacing one of my beauty boxes, as I feel I get more value from this sometimes. And it's always interesting and full of things I will use. This has to have been the best box so far though. Great stuff.

March 2014 Degustabox Review

Well. I may be running a tad behind it seems. But I will catch up. I will. Honest! So a quick review of march's yummy box coming up!

Moma Porridge - £1.50 each

Instant Porridge - just add hot water. This sounded right up my street! The plain version needed some honey/syrup but I really liked the cranberry and raisan version and took it with me to work, it was very handy! Not sure I would pay £1.50 each though, but handy if you like porridge and need to eat breakfast quickly!

Drink Me Chocolate Chai (£2.55) and Tea Latte Multipack (£6.50)

Right. I have to be upfrront about this. I don't drink tea or coffee. I know. Weird. So needless to say, I haven't tried the tea latte, but I'm keeping them for a lovely person we visits me and fancies a cuppa hehe. But! I did try and hot chocolate, it has a nice spicy aspect to it which is different and makes it interesting. I've made a chocolate cake with it too and that was successful so it's been nice to try it.

Schwartz Shots (£1.40 each)

These are so easy to use. Just add them to the pan with some meat and anything else you fancy and they give basically a shot of flavour. I got two of each type and I've made a chicken paella and a basic pasta dish with the Italian sauce and they're really effective, if I come across one at a slightly cheaper price I will pick it up!

Tyrell's Popcorn Sweet and Salty (£1.80)

Really there's not much I need to say about this. It was delicious and I think I ate it almost within 5 minutes of discovering it in the box. Loverly.

Shaken Udder Milkshakes (£1.89 each)

These were really nice as well, they'd be great for kid's lunchboxes but I took mine into work. There made with real fruit and they are really tasty. Shame they're so expensive for just a little milkshake!

Organico Durum Wheat Pasta (£1.49) and Tomato and Basil Sauce (£1.99)

Pasta and a sauce. These were really nice and worked well together. Happy to get ingredients I would easily use and really nice products and good quality.

Mexican Daves Tortilla Chips (£1.00)

This was my favourite thing in the box. These were delicious. Very cheesy and easy to consume far too many once they are put in the bowl. I would really buy these again, great chips and at a good price for a big bag.  The recipe card has a great looking recipe using them to make loaded nachos as well which looks really good, but I didn't let them hang around long enough for me to try this oops.

Well, another yummy box from Degustabox. Second box I've had and so far it's paying off money wise with what is coming in the box and things I will actually use. As well as being worth more than I paid for it all. I'll keep it going for now, it's been really handy for discovering new foods!

February Degusta Box Review

 

A different kind of review, but such a yummy one it's all good. At the start of February I spotted an ad for this box on facebook. At the time they were offering one month for £5, I thought I had nothing to lose really! It's normally £12.99 a month for the Degustabox and even then I think you get more for your money in that case. But for a fiver I couldn't pass it up. I forgot I ordered it as well, so I was really happy when it showed up and I couldn't believe how much stuff was in it! So here's a look at the contents!

 

 



 

You get a handy card with all the descriptions of the products and their prices on one side, and the other side has recipe ideas for some of the products as well. The two products focused on here were the Redcurrant Sauce (£1.80) and the Peppadew Peppers (£3) so that's really helpful!

 

 

Some old school Soren snacks, some original malt loaf (£1.39) and a pack of banana lunch box loaves (£1.35). The banana ones are yummy and make a decent on the run breakfast! Suits me then!

 

 

Some new style Ryvita treats in the shape of these Thins in the sweet chilli and Cheddar and black pepper flavours (£1.89 each) and nice and low in calories and pretty tasty as well so that helps!

 

 

And some different types of crisps. Tyrrell's Apple Crips in Cinnamon and Original (£1.15 each) These are interesting, and a nice snack if you're after a bit of a change!

 

 

These are energy drinks by Scheckler's (£1.35 each) and they are very berry flavoured. One was lower in calories but otherwise they are exactly the same. I am addicted to energy drinks since I don't drink coffee and these were really nice for a change from red bull.

 

 

Finally, the good stuff. Chocolate. These are from Bahlsen the Pickup bars (£1.60) are basically a slice of chocolate between two rich tea types biscuits. Nom. The Waffeletten (£1.65) are wafers with chocolate. Nom all round.

 

 

Now, that's quite a lot of food for a fiver. Even for the regular £12.99 you'd be saving money. You can choose what kind of products you'd like when you sign up as well, so hopefully you won't get much you won't like. The only thing I didn't think in this was the chutney, all good otherwise! Total box value was £22.37 - so that's a decent saving anyway! I'm gonna keep it going for another month anyway and see what treats I get in March!